Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Poised to Help FPs

Artificial intelligence and machine learning sound like topics that would appeal more to techie types than family physicians, but one glance around a packed meeting room at the AAFP’s Annual Chapter Leader Forum quickly dispelled that notion.

Steven Waldren, M.D., M.S., AAFP VP and chief medical informatics officer, tells physicians attending his breakout session at the 2019 Annual Chapter Leader Forum that artificial intelligence “starts out really dumb, but it is able to learn at an exponential rate.”

The breakout session, titled “AI/Machine Learning and the Future of the EHR” and held here on April 26, was hosted by AAFP VP and Chief Medical Informatics Officer Steven Waldren, M.D., M.S. And the family physicians who filled those...